Finding the Antler’s Visual Texture

Everything that I paint has it’s own visual texture, and how to paint that in a way that makes you see the essence of the subject is a process that reveals itself slowly in the beginning. There is a process of trial and error involved with getting the line quality, contrasting values and delicacy or crudeness of the mark-making to reveal the distinctive look of my subject. Today I’m (finally) confident that I know this texture well and can honor this amazing body part in a way that depicts the power and exquisiteness of it’s reason to exist.